The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.
The white working class has been economically destroyed and these are the results.
Whats interesting is that whites even on this board blame themselves.
Maybe that is close or like the old joke about why do men die before their wives: because they want to!
The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.
The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.
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BINGO....in very large measure. Whites have also taken a “cultural” beatdown also with much of the media and establishment on a jihad to make whites feel guilty for the problems of others. I predict that next “they” will be coming for the Asians in America.
Try finding a job as a 50+ white male....I can’t even get a call back, let alone an interview.
In the mid 90's I worked for a Corp that was a subset of another major Corp. that eventually went bankrupt in a spectacular fashion. This was after employment with a Dow component that was the ultimate in efficiency to go to this laggard that put the fun back in dysfunctional. While at the laggard I was stunned at the inefficiency and saying to myself man these folks are in deep doo doo IMHO Chapter 11 wasn't out of the picture, 20 years later, it happened.
But my manager was always trumpeting "We have to go Global", "We have to be Diverse" and the employees knew they had to be Politically Correct.
Instead of focusing on the product, they focused on this *****hit.
The Twenty somethings then at this/these firm(s) would be the demographic now experiencing these health issues, hopefully they are not or found greener pastures.
How did NAFTA and all the other Corp politics wear them down and take us away from "making things", since we don't anymore, which frankly feeds men's souls.
Ping me privately if you want to know the names of the companies...
It is hard on a person being pissed off all the time. If you are working to provide the Escalades, big screen teevees and smartphones for someone else you can't lavish on your own family, that gets to a person after a while. Yep, being continually pissed off is rough on a body. . . Let God, Let go, and outlive the b@st@rds.
Whites have also taken a “cultural†beatdown also with much of the media and establishment on a jihad to make whites feel guilty for the problems of others.
Actually, it is harder on a person repressing that rage.
Talking with my nurse co workers ,I was stunned at the number of them who have had strokes.
Most middle aged people are too fat and diabetes is a serious risk.
White people have had a target on their backs for at least a half century. We see the full fruition of this assault in such things as "white privilege", "white guilt", and "micro-aggresions" Those of us who are strong have been able to insulate ourselves from this cultural socio-economic assault, but if you are poor and uneducated, it would be easy to internalize all the negative messaging designed to degrade and undermine “whiteness,†producing a generalized sense of worthlessness and despair. Once so weakened, destructive lifestyle habits and negative self imaging creates the formula for early mortality.
I refuse to let the bastards wear me down.
Wow, do we all think alike or what. Yeah, we're all angry with repressed rage about lots of things. We all have to stay as healthy as we can though, for ourselves, family, God and country.
Ok, my 2 cents:
Go back to your Faith and follow the basics, 10 Commandments and Do unto Others, etc.
No drugs and only social drinking. Never more than two drinks a day. If your addicted, get help and explore religion.
The exercise crap - just walk and move, do stuff. Try and walk 10 minutes a day, 20 if your a health nut. : ) Stretch and move, make stuff. Muscles will atrophy if we don't move. . Also, the walking will lower your Blood Pressure. Just start! Even if it's two trips to the mail box!
Weight loss - move more and take less in. Or as a Doc friend of mine said, "Calories in, calories out." You want to take charge of both.
Avoid sugar as much as you can. It's in everything and contributes to weight gain and type II Adult Onset Diabetes.
Keep the Salt to a minimum. It's in everything too. Get LiteSalt, it's a combo of sodium and potassium chloride, you get half the sodium, the table salt. Okay with your Doctor though.
Basic vitamin regimen - I'm a nut on vitamins. Take a Multivitamin with Minerals, once a day after breakfast. Also, anti-oxidants, Vitamins C, E, some garlic, Coenzyme Q10, Turmeric, B50, (B-Complex) and Fish Oil. Take the bunch after breakfast and some vitamin C and Fish Oil after each meal if you remember. Vitamins better absorbed after a meal.
Melatonin 3-12mg at bedtime, helps the sleep cycle.
Biggest thing you can do is Control your Blood Pressure. Yeah, I know, lots of pressure and stress, anger, etc. The goal of 120/80 is no joke. If you need to take one or two BP meds to at least keep it 140/90 or thereabouts, do it. The biggest risk for us oldies is high blood pressure and diabetes. Get a Blood Pressure measuring machine for home use if you don't have one and check frequently. They don't cost much now, at Walmart or Walgreens. Blood pressure a tad higher in late afternoon, around 4-5 or so, so check it then and see how you're doing.
Statins - a mixed bag with lots of side effects. I had a memory 'episode' on them, lost 3-4 hours, so now take three times a week and no problem.
IF you don't have an allergy to aspirin and don't have a history of ulcers or any kind of bleeding disorder, everyone should be on a Baby Aspirin 81mg a day for the anti-coagulant effect - preventive for heart attacks and strokes. Get your Doc's okay though.
I used to tell adolescents: All Behavior has Consequences and Response Delay. Get out of the area for 5 minutes. . Sometimes helps to delay the bad choice.
With interpersonal stuff, marriage, kids, . and there's some issue. . there's a time and place to Drop It. It's just not worth it to hassle with it. Let it go and focus on making now better.
Slow Deep breathing and muscle relaxation exercises. Taking a slow deep breath lowers you blood pressure.
Simplify your life. Throw junk out, get a routine.
There's a wisdom in the early to bed, early to rise stuff.
Eat half of everything on your plate. This sounds gross, but sometimes I'll taste something, eat some and spit it out if high sugar or salt. You feel like you've tasted it so to speak but it's not more calories going in.
Go Fishing!
We all have to stay healthy. . Hey, we have Free Republic for comradery:
"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." - T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.
**The most likely reason is despair. Whites have taken a beating in the last thirty years in terms of employment.**
Add to that — that these people have put God out of their lives.